Jul 3 Even Better Than Eden: Ch. 1, Wilderness, Reading 3

Read “Contentment in the Wilderness,” pp. 22-26 and summarize.

What strikes you about Jesus’s experience with the wilderness while He was here on earth?

Consider Paul’s experience with the thorn in 2 Cor. 12:7-10. Can you explain Paul’s train of thought about the thorns in his life? What truths frame his perspective? How might they translate into your own life?

Read “Contentment in the New Garden,” pp. 27-28 and summarize.

Every chapter will end here, with this glorious future day to come. How does God finally close this theme of wilderness at the end of time? What comfort and encouragement does it provide you today?